Woman sues dr for telling her she's HIV+

f8dagrate wrote: kkscottdale wrote: f8dagrate wrote: kkscottdale wrote: BTW, as a nursing student, I get curious and look at my patients chart sometimes. I am part of the nursing team so I can know whatever the nurse knows. I don't worry about certain things because I'm not the nurse, so there there are certain things I don't need to be concerned about to do my job right. However, whenever the doctor or nurse knows certain things, I have to make sure the patient does not know what we know because that can spell disaster ( family chaos, newly found hiv status, once they get discharged they are going to jail, all sorts of stuff) cool congrats what semester btw I just started my 2nd semester. cool may I pm u today or tommorow i've got some questions i'm bout to watch bgc thats y lol

that's fine. I'm watching bgc too lol

kkscottdale wrote: Oh and by the way it's HIPAA

girl i spelled it right in my head but everytime i write it down it comes out wrong.. lol

PeacefulOne wrote: A cna does not need to know a pt's HIV status to give care.  That's why universal precautions are in place.  However, a nurse does need to know, in order to assure proper assessments of the patient's condition.  Reading a file if you are not giving medical care is a violation of HIPPA.  Discussing a patient with anyone who is not giving care is a violation of HIPPA. I would highly doubt that any doctor worth his/her salt would touch a patient during surgery without doing an HIV test.  I know a doctor who died as a result of a cut during surgery on a Hep C positive patient. But I can bet the surgeon who did her bypass knew.  That's why she was sent to a specialist.  It was most likely already in her medical record.   She most likely knew she had HIV.  She is butt-hurt because now a second doctor and staff know too.   She may win a settlement, but that doen't mean she's right.  She'll get hush money, and probably go out and infect some poor sap, with her Miss New Booty attitude.

they dont???

they just make beds and change water and stuff?

Edited by afrokock - Jan 22 2013 at 9:01pm

joileprincess wrote: Afro, they deal with bodily fluids but they should be observing the right precautions regardless. If you are consistently prudent with PPE it shouldn't be an issue. I find that a lot of them want to know so that they can be extra careful (or nosy) but truth be told they should be consistent because we don't perform HIV tests on everyone.

cool there are a lot of health care personnel on bhm.. I love it

I side eye some of the other CNA's who give me report on my patients at the start of my shift. They will tell me, "Oooh he has HIV so u know I just gown up and do this and that." This is not the 80's. We know how you can get HIV now. There is no reason to put these people in isolation and put on all this protective gear unless somethig warrants it. Ex. They're coughing everywhere? Put on a mask. Puking everywhere. Put on a gown. And all times wear your gloves.

And @ afro they just don't make beds.  In hospitals, they help monitor the patient through frequent vital signs and just being the nurse's aide(cleaning, hygiene stuff, take blood sugars, simple wound dressings, in the er they let them draw blood I heard,etc. Sometimes a good aide can either make or break your shift as a nurse.